STAR WARS' BIGGEST FAN WON'T CAMP OUT FOR TICKETS

STAR WARS' BIGGEST FAN WON'T CAMP OUT FOR TICKETS

SITTINGBOURNE, England (Wireless Flash) -- You think those fans lining up a month in advance for tickets to the upcoming "Star Wars" movie are fanatic? Well, there's a woman in Britain who's got them beat. 27-year-old Tracy Mannerings of Kent, England, has watched the original "Star Wars" a whopping 984 times -- the equivalent of watching the sci-fi flick 24 hours a day for three months straight. But even though Mannerings is perhaps the world's biggest "Star Wars" freak, she draws the line at camping out in front of a theater like American movie fans. She says she couldn't justify wasting all that time because, in her words, "As much as I love "Star Wars", it's just a movie." But it looks like Tracy won't have to wait in line at all when "The Phantom Menace" makes its debut in England on July 12 - - a local theater has already promised her tickets to the first showing.

CONTACT: Tracy Mannerings, ****1/2; Sittingbourne, Kent; 011-44- 179-547-2275